Couple Therapy

Ancillariolum tua te vocat uxor, et ipsa Lecticariola est: estis, Alauda, pares. Your wife calls you an admirer of servant maids, And she herself is an admirer of litter-bearers. You are a pair, Alauda.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 12, LVIII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

Filippo Lippi, Ritratto di donna con un uomo al davanzale (Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement), ca. 1440. Courtesy of The Met, New York.